Java tutorial
import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.FileReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; public class RegExpExample { public static void main(String args[]) { String fileName = "RETestSource.java"; String unadornedClassRE = "^\\s*class (\\w+)"; String doubleIdentifierRE = "\\b(\\w+)\\s+\\1\\b"; Pattern classPattern = Pattern.compile(unadornedClassRE); Pattern doublePattern = Pattern.compile(doubleIdentifierRE); Matcher classMatcher, doubleMatcher; int lineNumber = 0; try { BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName)); String line; while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) { lineNumber++; classMatcher = classPattern.matcher(line); doubleMatcher = doublePattern.matcher(line); if (classMatcher.find()) { System.out.println("The class [" + classMatcher.group(1) + "] is not public"); } while (doubleMatcher.find()) { System.out.println("The word \"" + doubleMatcher.group(1) + "\" occurs twice at position " + doubleMatcher.start() + " on line " + lineNumber); } } } catch (IOException ioe) { System.out.println("IOException: " + ioe); ioe.printStackTrace(); } } }